Questions & Answers about Við skilum nytjahlutnum inn.
Yes. Skilum is the 1st person plural present form of skila.
- að skila = to return, hand in, deliver back
- við skilum = we return / we hand in
The ending -um is a very common ending for we in the present tense.
So:
- ég skila = I return
- þú skilar = you return
- við skilum = we return
Because it is in the dative singular definite form.
The basic noun is nytjahlutur. In this sentence, it appears as nytjahlutnum because:
- skila normally takes its thing-object in the dative
- the noun is definite: the useful object / the utility item
So -num here signals something like to/with/in the dative + the.
A good way to think of it is:
- nytjahlutur = a useful object / utility item
- nytjahlutnum = the useful object / the utility item, in the dative form